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A HEARTLESS CONSERVATIVE

... Lorid Pialmerstea .-Ihe;, greapt o~stagle, tq iall pro' gress-would produce a weaderful. tqfofrm :Bill.' He did not like the Whigs saying that jthe~y were the frieuds ofthe people, and thrb~tbe'Gouserva- tives had no interest it' the welfareonf the corn ...

Published: Tuesday 24 October 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 545 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Letters to the Editor

... Fyfois awellknow citzen r Pussell a ci~icru. hardly kuowu ,at ~ll beypud the precincts of the violent .romorselcos-srumtp of the whig clique.' The iudepeun dent electdri i..ve iie taste'fo. the old yoke so recelaty r rd thorodghly'broken .-2-I am, Lw.,? .~~~ ...

Published: Thursday 26 October 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 543 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... choosing a 'Scotch memnber. In 1835, when the Whigs de- terimined to oppose the're-eliction of Sir Charles.- Manners Sutton, because 'he had tendered to the Sover'ign advice opposed to' the interests ofthe Whig party,- they' put up Mr Abercromby,' the member ...

Published: Saturday 14 October 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2694 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

Letters to the Editor

... johrnils 'Cre 'allowed to have itheir way ; IS it the: 'goodd of the: country 't No: suoh thing.t It,.is Ahbe.ipredominance df . !Whig or, Tory colique. -It is the;:aggrandisementiof a faction at the expeuse,oftlhe~common weAl.; andwil.the thsn ing classes ...

Published: Tuesday 31 October 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 689 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON LETTER

... no help.' Most of the other Ministers were silent. No assistance came from his friends behind; but, on the contrary, Whig alter Whig arose to give the unfortunate Bill a : stab, either openly or covertly, as Joab killed :e .4buer, stabbing him% under ...

Published: Saturday 28 October 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2918 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

PRESENTATION OF MEDALS TO THE EDINBURGH RIFLE BRGADE

... ons indicated; but, let him take my word for it, these will be taxed to the utmost before Mr Colston is done with him. The Whig clique and the intolerant party were went to view Mr Colston with indillerence, if not with complacency ; but now that he has ...

SUMMARY

... 'of Comiucuer ? ' With what policy will her Majeaty's Govern- nment gbe carried on ?7 What course will the Palmersox ian Whigs take in the event of a :Reforra BitU being brought in ?' and VVhxat, with or without Reform, is lilely -to be the fiate and ...

Published: Thursday 26 October 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3557 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

NATIONAL REFORM UNION

... broke down nuder w,hat. I 4as called the I composite Government of Lord I Aberdeen in 1854-; it broke down under the pure l Whig' Gdiermnentof LordPalmerston in 1857; it 'broke down under the Tory Government of Lord Derby, in 1859 ; and in 1860 it broke ...

Published: Saturday 21 October 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1513 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE PREMIERSHIP

... He would probably make an accept- -able leader to ' a,' large proportion of the party, particularly to the thorough-bred Whigs, and he would not bb unpopular in' fhe coun-t try. It would,, however, argue no disrespect towards Lord Russell' if' the claims ...

Published: Saturday 21 October 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1792 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

LORD PALMERSTON

... politician to study the graces of literary eipression, his hand was sharply felt in the Tory'mischief' then going on. The New Whig fiie, a pleasant battery directed against the Liberal opposition, was mainly, we. believe, written by Lord'Palmerston, Sir ...

Published: Monday 23 October 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2586 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... We are uttering 'no libel on the memory ofLord Palmerston when we say that political principles took no firm hold upon him. Whig or Tory-they' mattered little to him. Under either the one regirne. or the other he could, without scruple, continue , to conduct ...

Published: Saturday 28 October 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3339 | Page: 2 | Tags: News